U. S.Army
Air
Corps
Photograph
byMajor
Albert
W.
Stevens
OHIO RIVER WATERS ENGULFED MANY ACRES OF HOMES AND FACTORIES IN THE HARD-HIT
LOUISVILLE
AREA
In the foreground appears the Kentucky city's low "Point" section, with its partly submerged gasoline tanks, waterfront
houses,
and
industrial
plants.
Across
theswollen
river is flooded Jeffersonville, Indiana. Against the approach to the railroad bridge are strewn fragments of houses, boats,
and
bridges,
mixed
with
other
flotsam
from
up
the Ohio. Scores of lives were lost in this vicinity.